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Show , ' ' - mWAWmb j Marxian Club 'Socialists I MMB o J i o H I I EDITORIAL COMMITEE: Questions concerning Socialism B i Kate S. Hilllard, answered, Address all coininunlca-0 M Eugono A. Battel!, tlons to Howard Hall, 27S3 Pacific B i Howard Hall. avenue. ? MMBI B It' is u lie Just that, a lie to de-. PpH ., clare that Wages aro the woith MMBj of Work, PpH Xo; they are what the employer wills MMBJ j to spare PPPJ H To let, the employe sheer starvation ppv , H I Fiancis Adams. PPH PPPJ ".Man makes his own history, but PPHj i hq docs not make It out of the whole PPH cloth; he does not make It out of con- PPPJ dltlous chosen by himself, but out of ihiich as he finds close at hand." Karl Marx in "The Kighteeuth Dru malro." PpBj ; Urlllianl is the paiallel diawn. be- PPPJ Lwccu slavery and poverty by Dr. Ja- PPPJ cob H. Hollander, professor of ccou- PPPJ t omics. at John Hopkins university: H j "We have grown to look upon pov- PPPJl city as a permanent condition, but PPPJ there was a time, when slavery was re- PPPJ garded as a necessary condition. I PPH ' believe that some day future genera- PPH tlons will look back on the poverty PPH of our day In the tame astonishment PPPJ we feel in contemplating slavery. Tho PPPJ philosophy of history points In this PPPJ ' direction.'' Both in spirit and in lan- PPPJ Ktiage. however, the parallel is close- PPPJ ly borrowed from Socilllst Labor Par- PPPJ ty doctrines Now, is the professor PPPJ casting his lot with tho purty whoso PPH language he uses, for straight revolu- PPH tlou, or is he losing his time run- PPH nlug up the bliud alloys or scttlc- PPH meat work, philanthropies, and "so- PPPJI cial reform?"' PPPJ Colin Macilac Makepeace, a Ilar- PPH vard sophomore interested in social PPH problems, as an experiment spent a PPPJ vacation week by going to Concord, PPH X. H., where by sawing wood and PPH othor odd Jobs he "made his expenses PPH and a little more." PPH ColJn MacRae Makepeace may now PPK be expected to blossom forth in tho PPPJt Harvard "Lampoon," of which lie is a PPH business maaacr. with articles to PPPH prove that no one need be uneni- PPH ployed. Before ho vloes so, Colin Mac- IRao should oast hla weather eye upou the fact that sawing- -wood and doing I other odd Jobs for baroly one's "ox- PPpfl peuseB and a little more,'.' with tho PPH, I consoquont deprivation of all leisure PPH 'I for study or self improvement, doea I not, in any civilized twentieth cen tury sense of tho term constituto "employment." Witness Colin M. M. himself taking a university courso so PPH nn .to llfo hlmpelf above tho necessity PPpflj for such "employmont." PPH Xo doubt about it, Prof. Bushnel PPpi Hart is correct -when he points to tho PPpV I distraaslng lack of big men in the PPpH big places of government Xo doubt PPpi about It either. Prof. Hart is wrong PPH 1 -when he attributes such lack to tho PPH j ' "failure of democracy." Democracy PPH V tho political Democracy which tho PPH royolationary fathers thought was PPPM g Rolng to confer the blessings or PPpH ' jf Canaan on this country has uot PPPH ) r failed. It has only been temporarily PPPPJ ' oruabod to earth by tho autocracy of : kkH' Industry. Willi industry democratised, democra-tised, as politics now is, tho blessings of democracy will reassert themselves them-selves Fall River mills arc to go on a four-day-a-week schedule, to lelieve the employers of thejr tight market. Did anyone over hear of mills keeping open to rolleve the employes of a tight pocketbookV Only when tho workers own the places they work in, will their industry cease to recoil to their own disadvantage. |